Word: swallowings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Chomsky's characterization of the United States as a "propaganda" state like all the rest--distinguishable only by its more effective and seductive salesmanship--is particularly hard to swallow. For every Sidney Hook who dismissed the havoc of Vietnam as "an unfortunate accidental loss of life" and "the unintended consequence of military action," there was a Noam Chomsky, willing--and able--to stand up and decry the madness. Maybe the reaction came to little too late, but Americans eventually rebelled against their own government's policy and, through their action, ended a nightmare...
...destroying a country. My government is not prepared to be a party to Soviet expansion in this area or anywhere else in the world and have a finger pointed at us by our own children. It is better to be destroyed in a different way than that. We cannot swallow that...
...Leverett House History and Science major cited his double-fisted, "alternating-pizza approach" holding a slice in each hand and alternating bites--as the deciding factor in his victory. "Other people were piling their slices, but that made them harder to swallow," he explained...
...sneak the first assumption past the grader, then the rest is clear sailing. If he fails, he still gets a certain amount of credit for his irrelevant but fact-filled discussion of scientific progress in the 18th century. And it is amazing what some graders will swallow in the name of intellectual freedom...
...American civil aviation business, which still produces 85% of the Western world's commercial jet aircraft, will be down to just two companies: Boeing and McDonnell Douglas. Both of them are also caught in the turbulence of the worldwide slowdown in air travel. Douglas had to swallow $144.3 million in development costs for the DC-9 Super 80 at a time when it sold only twelve DC-10s, and warned in September that it might have to stop production of wide-bodied DC-10s if the Air Force canceled orders for a military tanker version...